by Douglas Rushkoff
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The end of the millennium is just a couple of years away, and folks, it's getting pretty insane out there. Survivalists are stockpiling weapons in the hills as they wait for the black helicopters that herald a new world order; Heaven's Gate cultists try and return to the mother ship via poison-laced apple sauce while members of the Solar Temple believe their suicides on Earth will result in a better life on the planet Sirius. Can it get any stranger? In Douglas Rushkoff's novel, Ecstasy Club, it can and does. Rushkoff's club is an abandoned piano factory in Oakland, California, where members of a small group of idealists hold round-the-clock raves even as they seek to combine computer technology, mind-altering substances and New Age spirituality to create a method of time travel.
The end of the millennium is just a couple of years away, and folks, it's getting pretty insane out there. Survivalists are stockpiling weapons in the hills as they wait for the black helicopters that herald a new world order; Heaven's Gate cultists try and return to the mother ship via poison-laced apple sauce while members of the Solar Temple believe their suicides on Earth will result in a better life on the planet Sirius. Can it get any stranger? In Douglas Rushkoff's novel, Ecstasy Club, it can and does. Rushkoff's club is an abandoned piano factory in Oakland, California, where members of a small group of idealists hold round-the-clock raves even as they seek to combine computer technology, mind-altering substances and New Age spirituality to create a method of time travel.
Along with end-of-the-world scenarios, the millennium brings with it a heavy dose of conspiracy theory, and Ecstasy Club has its fair share. Once narrator Zach Levi and his merry band actually succeed in "breaking time" online, they are beset by menacing government agents, religious zealots and a host of other special interest groups who are out to shut them down. So while we're all waiting for 1999, what better way to pass the time than with Douglas Rushkoff's Ecstasy Club?
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Gathering together in a dilapidated old warehouse to explore the ultimate frontier of cyberspace and the ultimate barrier of time, a group of disenfranchised young hackers and esoteric spiritualists try to create a plugged-in utopia, until they find themselves threatened by a motley array of mysterous enemies.
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